Definitions for feelers

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feelers feel·er

Spelling: [fee-ler]

IPA: /ˈfi lər/

Feelers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in feelers (eeeflrs).

Definitions for feelers

noun

1. a person or thing that feels.
2. a proposal, remark, hint, etc., designed to bring out the opinions or purposes of others:
3. Zoology. an organ of touch, as an antenna or a tentacle.
4. Also called feeler gauge. Engineering. a gauge having several blades of known thickness, used for measuring clearances.
5. Nautical. a device for indicating that the lead of a mechanical sounding device has come to the bottom.

Origin of feelers

First recorded in 1520-30; feel + -er¹

Examples for feelers

It was just a feeler, but the woman didn't even answer to that.

Look here, Mac, d'you think you could put out a feeler for us?

Just a feeler of Frémont's—his army's three miles over there in the woods.

"But I don't like doing that sort of thing," she went on, throwing out a feeler.

"They are saying good-bye to each other, now," said Tom, by way of a feeler.

Ted glanced keenly at his companion, for he had made the remark as a sort of feeler.

"I see you have Diablo entered for the Brooklyn," Faust put out as a feeler.

Note the knob on the end of the butterfly's feeler (Fig. 143).

He expected to feel the jerk of the electric shock of the feeler.

Roll in dried and powdered coral, and put a piece of feeler in each.